John Calipari praises Mark Stoops for changing the football culture at Kentucky

Keith Farner| 5 months ago

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As Kentucky football’s impressive season overlaps into the basketball season in the Bluegrass, John Calipari discussed the fall Mark Stoops and his team have had this year.

The UK men’s basketball coach explained that the recent overtime loss to Texas A&M was a clear indicator of how the culture has changed in the last two years. Instead of being “sad,” the players and coaches were “mad and angry” Calipari said at his press conference on Thursday to open the season.

It’s truly a new day in Lexington when Calipari revealed that one of his friends he meets with for coffee discussed the upcoming schedule, and the friend gave the football opponent for a given week, not basketball.

Calipari not only discussed his relationship with Stoops, but he also weighed in on the team’s star players, from Benny Snell, Jr., to Josh Allen.

John Calipari says Stoops has changed the football culture at UK. Everyone was "mad and angry" after the A&M loss. Said two years ago everyone would have just been "sad" and moved on.

Script flipped: John Calipari getting football questions at basketball media day. Long rave about the job his friend Mark Stoops has done. Then about how impressed he was Benny Snell, a Heisman hopeful, said all the right things to media after low usage in a tough loss at A&M.

Calipari on getting football questions on his own media day: "Can you imagine?" Asked one of his coffee buds who UK plays on Nov. 9 (meaning basketball schedule) and the guy gives him the football opponent. "You kidding me?" Cal says he loves it. Stoops "changed the culture."

And ole miss is neither a football or baketball school. But things are changing in Lexington for football.5-1 four sec wins and tied for first place in east.and basketball season hasn’t even started yet.go cats

Kentucky use to play for National Basketball Championships.
We use to begin every season talking about overcoming UCLA and own the title of most NCAA championships.
Those days are over.
And body herald anything about Passionate Benny Snell?